Economics
The idea that to get one thing, you must give up the other.
What is opportunity cost?
The name of the Mesopotamian writing system.
What is cuneiform?
The landforms that protected Ancient Egypt.
What are the Mediterranean Sea, the Sahara Desert, and the cataracts of the Nile River.
The river that the Harappan civilization developed along.
What is the Indus River?
The three main ways that cultural diffusion happens. You MUST list all three to get the points.
What are war, migration, and trade?
A situation where one brand controls the market, no one else is in the market, everyone has to buy from them.
What is a monopoly?
A method used by Mesopotamia to water their crops with water from the river, making canals for it to get there.
What is irrigation?
The history of Ancient Egypt is split up into these different increments.
What are kingdoms and dynasties?
The overall goal of Buddhism, the achievement that Buddhists work toward.
What is self-enlightenment?
In this religion, your mind is the main focus.
What is Buddhism?
What are the three major economic questions?
What are the questions; What to produce, how to produce, and who to produce for?
An ancient poem from Mesopotamia, the first literary work of its time.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The first female pharaoh-also known for ruling for a very long time.
Who is Hatshepsut?
The Preserver God in Ancient India.
Who is Vishnu the Preserver?
The religion where you are supposed to make a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in your lifetime, if you are in a position to do so.
What is Islam?
A rare point where the supply and demand perfectly meet, this is what marketers aim for when purchasing or making goods to sell.
What is market equilibrium?
The body of water that Sumer was founded near.
What is the Persian Gulf?
The most important God in Ancient Egypt-often depicted as a man with a falcon head.
Who is Ra, the Sun God?
The two Ancient Indian cities we learned about.
What are Mohenjo Daro and Harappa?
What is a (food) surplus?
A share of your company's earnings through the stock market. The company whose share you own will give you a percentage of their earnings-just for holding the share.
What is a dividend?
True Or False: Women had many social rights.
TRUE!
The pharaoh whose body was cut up and scattered around-he was killed by his brother in Ancient Egyptian religion.
Who is Osiris?
A story describing a war between two kingdoms
What is the Muhabharata?
In this religion, people debate whether it is monotheism or polytheism, and the Buddha was first this religion.
What is Hinduism?